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The Brooklyn man accused of beating a Jewish man in a hate attack in Midtown proclaimed from his jail cell that he would “do it again,” prosecutors said on Saturday. Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail in the Thursday attack, in which he is accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches and punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him. “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” he told one of his jailers, according to a prosecutor at Awawdeh’s Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. “I have no problem doing it again.” The attack was unprovoked,...

American Jewish Congress Responds to North American Fiqh Council Fatwa Condemning Terrorism Distribution Source : U.S. Newswire Date : Friday, July 29, 2005 To: National Desk Contact: American Jewish Congress, 212-360-1540 or 917-733-3561 or email: Jengelmayer@AJCongress.org or Web site: http://www.ajcongress.org NEW YORK, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to the North American Fiqh Council's fatwa condemning terrorism, American Jewish Congress President Paul S. Miller issued the following statement: Obviously any sincere condemnation of all forms of terrorism by bona fide religious leaders of the Muslim community would be a welcome development. So, we would like to be able to...

Palestinian shoots three teenagers in Jewish settlement By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem 29 May 2002 Three Israeli students were killed by a Palestinian guerrilla who infiltrated a Jewish settlement last night, raising the domestic pressure on Ariel Sharon to find a new solution to stop Palestinian attacks. The gunman penetrated Itamar, a settlement near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, in an area which has seen regular conflict between Jewish settlers and the Palestinians. He was eventually shot dead by a settler.Israeli witnesses said that the three students were shot while they were studying in a religious seminary in Itamar....